{"id":369,"date":"2009-11-19T10:54:41","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T10:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/?p=369"},"modified":"2009-11-19T11:05:17","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T11:05:17","slug":"anaheim-hills-the-last-mann-in-orange-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/2009\/11\/19\/anaheim-hills-the-last-mann-in-orange-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Anaheim Hills: The Last Mann in Orange County"},"content":{"rendered":"
Seventeen years ago, Edwards opened the Festival 8 Cinemas<\/a>, hoping to tap in to the affluent planned community of Anaheim Hills. While the Festival 8 never quite lived up to attendance expectations, the\u00a0theatre was later expanded to fourteen screens,\u00a0to\u00a0stay viable\u00a0in the megaplex era and\u00a0trump it’s nearest competitor, Cinemapolis (now known as Cinema City).\u00a0<\/a>Yet, the\u00a0truly notable aspect of this theatre isn’t related to an expansion or modernization, but to it’s roots as Mann’s last Orange County project.<\/div>\n
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Back in the Fall of 1991, the Anaheim Hills site was slated to be Mann Theatre’s latest venture in to Orange County, marking the chain’s fourth county venue (Mann had operated ten theatres\u00a0in the county, at various times). However,\u00a0foreshadowing the company’s\u00a0slip from prominence in\u00a0the decade to come<\/a>,\u00a0the project was sold to Edwards, along with the three existing Mann theatres in Brea<\/a>, Laguna Niguel, and Huntington Beach. Additionally,\u00a0the sale coincided with an announcement that Mann had officially abandoned\u00a0plans for a cinema in San Clemente;\u00a0abruptly ending the company’s eighteen year presence in the lucrative Orange County market.<\/div>\n
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A year later, on November 19, 1992,\u00a0the Festival 8 opened\u00a0as an\u00a0Edwards and the three other\u00a0venues\u00a0carried on under the Edwards brand up until the company filed for bankruptcy. Mann would step back in to the county picture, taking\u00a0management of both the Laguna Niguel <\/a>and Huntington Beach <\/a>theatres once again, but these operations\u00a0would prove short lived, as Mann was no longer the powerhouse of years past and was forced to relinquished the sites within a few years.<\/div>\n
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Today, the\u00a0former Festival 8\u00a0goes by the updated Anaheim Hills 14 moniker and stands as\u00a0somewhat of a “what if” in the history of Mann Theatres.\u00a0The last\u00a0Orange County project for the seemingly doomed chain and a little known marker in the company’s decline.\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seventeen years ago, Edwards opened the Festival 8 Cinemas, hoping to tap in to the affluent planned community of Anaheim Hills. While the Festival 8 never quite lived up to attendance expectations, the\u00a0theatre was later expanded to fourteen screens,\u00a0to\u00a0stay viable\u00a0in the megaplex era and\u00a0trump it’s nearest competitor, Cinemapolis (now known as Cinema City).\u00a0Yet, the\u00a0truly notable […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":373,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions\/373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}